Pac-10 absent from AP poll

“This is the first poll since the final one of 1986-87 that there hasn’t been a team from the Pac-10 in the rankings. California and Washington were the only teams from the conference to have been in the Top 25 this season.”

That only tells half of the story: A detailed look at the poll shows that the 65 voters in the rankings all left the entire Pac-10 off their ballots. It’s not just a matter of your best team being 26th (Texas A&M received 126 points to be the top team left out this week). By way of comparison, two Ivy League teams, Cornell and Harvard, received votes this week. The Pac-10 got absolutely nothing.